README.md

In alexhunziker/GrowingSOM: Growing Self-Organizing Maps

GrowingSOM

Implementation of Growing Self Organizing Maps in R

Mainly based on: Damminda Alahakoon, Saman K. Halgamuge (2000): Dynamic Self-Organizing Maps with Controlled Growth for Knowledge Discovery. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, VOL. 11.

Functionality

• train.gsom()
• train_xy.gsom()
• map.gsom()
• predict.gsom()
• summary.gsom()
• print.gsom()
• plot.gsom()

Installation

Make sure you are in the package directory then run:

    R CMD build .

Please note that dependencies may need to be installed in advance (install.packages("plotrix"))

Windows only: A binary Package needs to be obtained by:

    mkdir temp_location
    R CMD INSTALL --build -l temp_location GrowingSOM_VERSION.tar.gz

installation Linux (in R):

    install.packages(repos=NULL,"PHATH_TO_HERE/GrowingSOM_VERSION.tar.gz")

installation Windows (in R):

    install.packages(repos=NULL, "PATH_TO_HERE\GrowingSOM_VERSION.zip", type="binary")

Legal

GrowingSOM is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

GrowingSOM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GrowingSOM. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

alexhunziker/GrowingSOM documentation built on May 10, 2019, 8:52 a.m.